vlookup formatting problem

[pbuscio]

Hi, i have a vlookup to a table that has both dates and percentages in. when i do a simple vlookup the data is fine but i cannot do conditional formatting. however, if i change the vlookup to this

=IF(VLOOKUP($E16,tblCurrent,5,FALSE)>1,VLOOKUP($E16,tblCurrent,5,FALSE)*1,VLOOKUP($E16,tblCurrent,5,FALSE))

the conditional formatting works but anything that is a date becomes a percentage. so 11/26/13 becomes 4160400%

i tried using the text function for the last part of the formula but it didn't work

any ideas?

 

[MyVeryOwnSelf]

i tried using the text function for the last part of the formula but

it didn't work

any ideas?

Maybe something like:
=TEXT(VLOOKUP(...),IF(VLOOKUP(...)>1,"Mmm d, yyyy","0.00%"))
That is, the IF() test determines the format_text parameter of the TEXT() function, and the result is a text value.

If that doesn't meet the need, it'd help to see more edetail about what you're trying to achieve. Apparently, values <=1 should appear as a percentage, while others should appear as a date. Is there something more to it than that?